November

A new report by an anti-nuclear organization says earthquake risks were seriously underestimated when the state’s only commercial nuclear-power plant was built almost 30 years ago on the Hanford nuclear reservation.

October

UW's Kate Allstadt published a paper with Professor John Vidale and USGS ground motion expert Art Frankel that uncovers a significant landslide hazard to add to the other impacts of a big Seattle Fault quake.

January

2012

December

An ongoing swarm of earthquakes (largest so far M~5.7) in the Black Sea off of the Georgian coast, and non-scientific claims of bigger earthquakes to come, have led to "panic" in the population. http://dfwatch.net/earthquake-hits-georgia-again-16295

Kate Allstadt has been studying small, repeating earthquakes generated by Mt Rainier's glaciers. Her work will help differentiate glacial quakes from the VTs (volcano tectonic) quakes that precede eruptions.

November

Our colleagues at PGC in British Columbia are reaping a harvest of new observations following the M7.7 Haida Gwaii earthquake last month. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/11/21/bc-haida-gwaii-earthquake-scientists.html